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Fellas giving out about repetitive posting while making every second post on every thread about the @limericks… gas stuff altogether

Will there be another day of haranguing and vilifying the people who sang a song and apologised for it from the Rob Wotton types?

Rangers would be one of the top four British clubs in Ireland at least in terms of support.

Celebrity fans include Richard Sadlier and former Waterford GAA manager John Jackson Kiely.

You’re up and at it early this morning, the schedule has been cleared??! :rofl:

I’ve a day’s work to do. You mind that other eye, because the level of seethe, high blood pressure and constant screen use is going to put it under serious pressure. I’m not even joking about that, that’s a genuine piece of advice.

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Rob Wotton didn’t harangue anybody. He asked a few respectful questions.

You’re coming across like Ron Atkinson did after it was rightly suggested he needed to be educated after he racially abused Marcel Desailly.

I guess we are. They apologised. Case closed

Shure you didn’t take a break the whole of yesterday.

Just a tip, mate - if you have to resort to jeering somebody over a serious medical condition, you’ve automatically lost any argument.

I feel sorry for your fellow “workers”, what with you going around shouting “Up the Ra” all day at the top of your voice like Alan Partridge shouting “mooooooo!”

You’ll give yourself laryngitis and you don’t want that.

Unless you’re a town cryer literally as well as metaphorically?

I wasn’t jeering you. There is a genuine risk of the other retina coming under pressure from over-use of the “good” eye, and increased blood pressure is also a factor in it happening.

You’re welcome.

I think it’s pretty obvious you were mate and so were your fellow Limerick posters. But don’t worry, I’m a big boy and am well able to take it, I’m getting quite the laugh from how desperate for material youse lads are.

Also you said you were supposed to be at work and wouldn’t be posting and here you are back on?

Watch that blood pressure, I’d say it’s been sky high the last 24 hours.

Reggie is now joining in… Who would have thought that all the screaming Marys would go and make ‘up the Ra’ a meme to be an every day running joke in society.

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It was an awful slap in the face to the families of the likes of Garda Jerry McCabe, Garda Seamus Quaid, Garda John Morley, Garda Gary Sheehan, Private Patrick Kelly and Brian Stack. Members of the Security Forces of the State murdered as they went about their jobs by gangs of gangsters and criminals who didn’t recognise the State and purportedly were at war with it. ‘Ooh ah, up the Ra’ my arse.

Go on home chairman Tan go on home…

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The West Brits are positively fuming over this one

John Bruton must be turning in his grave.

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*Sir John Bruton

Why don’t you go home?
Why don’t you go home?
The empire is oooooover
Why don’t you go home?

FAO @thedancingbaby

the jungle was the name of the terrace at Celtic park, the Lion is a reference to the Lisbon Lions

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I must admit, I initially thought “up the ra” wasn’t a big deal and this was largely a contrived furore but there’s been terrifically robust debate about it on TFK since. It’s been TFK at its finest in my view and the likes of @Cheasty and @ChairmanDan have made several points that have made me pause for thought. Equally I think @Juhniallio (of all people) made some excellent points yesterday, not necessarily in defence of it, but contextualising it. There’s been some outstanding and particularly vitriolic personal abuse thrown in too. I always like it when posters drag up previous spats and unleash a torrent of pent up insults at someone. Overall, on the back of this, I’d probably be less inclined to shout “up the ra” to myself when I’ve gotten the better of an English banker on a work call. I’d also be more wary about joining in the singing of it at Celtic Park and perhaps limit myself to the Jimmy Bell song and other ditties of that nature. That’s learning, that’s evolution, that growth, that’s TFK.

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Jimmy Bell as in the Super Trouper song ??

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No, the Super Trouper one is a bit too nasty for me.

One of the other ones…

He’s a bastard
An orange bastard
His name is Jimmy Bell
And he’s dead!

Much more homely. It’s one the women and kiddies can enjoy and sing along to as well.

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My local is a small pub in rural Limerick. There’s an English lad (Walsall) in his early 50’s that lives and works locally as a contractor, and has done so for the last 5 years or so.

We were having an early evening pint yesterday when he ambled in. He was asking what the fuss was about, had b=never heard of the Wolfe Tones or had barely heard of the tradition of Republican songs. It struck me that your average English person neither has any interest or understanding of it and are generally not bothered at all. That’s mainly how Brexit passed too.

It’s a media feeding frenzy and no more.

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